Word: shyness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loved solitude, would often sit among people for hours without saying a word. The one thing Herriman could always talk about fluently and without shyness was Krazy...
...Iceland. He concedes that the sudden influx of thousands of servicemen into Iceland created problems. But they were no worse than those of any U.S. small town with a big Army camp plunked down beside it. Now recreational facilities have improved, and Icelanders have lost some of their shyness toward the strangers...
...while we thought we had another Lindbergh in Major Bong, because it apparently hurt him to talk. . . . This lad is naturally modest to the point almost of shyness while having deep confidence in his ability...
Last week the diminutive, old-man-like boy was exhibited at a St. Louis symposium on degenerative diseases. Paul showed no fear or shyness, because he knows the doctors well. Newspapermen took Paul's picture, were surprised to learn that he likes toys, wants a big cake on his birthday in the middle of April...
There were four principal reasons for this seeming shyness: 1) the Japanese Navy was busy with its traditional mission of building and maintaining supply lines, 2) attrition of Japanese strength and additions to U.S. strength, in both naval and merchant vessels, had finally clamped caution on to Japanese helms, 3) the new Commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Admiral Mineichi Koga, was a careful man, and 4) the flexibility of Allied strategy had the Japs guessing about the best way of defending their home islands...